Comment 12 for bug 7250

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:56:14 -0500
From: Graham Wilson <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Russ Allbery <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: *** ERROR: can't make xmltex fmt files, installation doesn't work

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:54:57AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mardi 03 ao�04 �8:53 -0700, Russ Allbery a �it :
> > You can fix this by running dpkg-reconfigure -p low tetex-bin and then
> > configuring it to update fmtutil.cnf automatically.
>
> Yes, right the installation is fine now, thanks.
> BTW the xmltex installation should not fail even if this option is
> turned to off, I let the bug open.

Yes, it should fail. The postinst of tetex-bin even warns you about
this.

 $ cat /usr/share/doc/xmltex/README.Debian
 -----------------------------
 Debian README file for xmltex
 -----------------------------

 Installation of xmltex will fail if automatic generation of fmtutil.cnf
 is not enabled. This can be enabled by reconfiguring tetex-bin. As root,
 do the following:

  # dpkg-reconfigure -p low tetex-bin

 Note that this is a known issue with the Debian teTeX packages; the
 configuration dialogs displayed at package installation time say:

  REMARK: Automatic installation of some other TeX related packages could
  fail in this case.

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